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* Caught up in his trend to collaborate with everyone, Riley Green includes 19 artists on his next single... then forgets to include himself
* Entire Billboard Hot Country Songs chart occupied by Zach Bryan songs for five weeks straight; new rule enacted the next week to counter this results in chart occupied entirely by Morgan Wallen songs
* Oliver Anthony Music banned from Dollar General in Farmville, Virginia for vandalizing a display of Fudge Rounds
* Latest Cole Swindell single proven to be both written and produced by AI; results inconclusive on whether Cole himself is an AI
* Several casual Randy Travis fans experience shock upon hearing "Whisper My Name" for the first time
* Disturbance at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Nashville discovered to be Dobie Gray rolling in his grave after the release of Dustin Lynch's "Chevrolet"
* "You Can't Hide Beautiful" by Aaron Lines officially recognized as the first "boyfriend country" song
* Oliver Anthony Music denies allegations that he is related to Lorenzo Music, the former voice actor for Garfield
* For the first time, Luke Combs gets a single all the way to #1 before it even has a Wikipedia article
* Jason Aldean releases new single "But Some of My Best Friends Are Black"... alongside a cover of Cledus T. Judd's "Illegals"
* Bobby continues to be the only Farce the Music regular who refuses to make jokes about Kane Brown or Maren Morris
* Due to an overflow error, Zach Bryan's next album listed on Spotify as having -27 songs on it
* After the success of "Watermelon Moonshine", Lainey Wilson releases "We Danced Regardless", all the while denying allegations that she is just going to keep copying Deana Carter
* Blake Shelton continues his slide into irrelevance by collaborating with Pitbull... oh wait, he already did that
* At last, the long-awaited return of the Smokin' Armadillos
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The Current Poop of Mainstream Country Radio: August '23
A poop emoji is negative, a strike thru is positive, an asterisk denotes a song where the good attributes and the bad are dead even.
The current Poop Rating of the Mediabase Top 20 is (-10) overall which is a 4 point drop from May (the previous time we did this chart). The best song (by a hair over Hailey Whiters) is Luke Combs’ monster hit cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car.” The worst is Parmalee's "Girl in Mine" for the second time in a row, narrowly beating out Luke Bryan’s insipid “But I Got a Beer in My Hand.” I don’t really see any particular trends besides it being summer, always a celebration of cliches on country radio.
Chart info from Mediabase/Country Aircheck.